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Dead in Columbia dorm: ’I Woke Up And The Love Of My Life Was Dead Next To Me’

Posted on April 1, 2013 by | Leave a comment
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Dead in a Columbia dorm room, 21-year-old Jessica Fingers of Monticello, N.Y., was found face-up on the floor at the East Campus of Columbia University. Continue reading →

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116th Street, West From Eight Avenue, NY 1880-1920′s

Posted on March 21, 2013 by | Leave a comment

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A wonderful photograph looking west on 116th Street looking towards Columbia, in the Morningside Heights area of West Harlem, NY. Continue reading →

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2013 State of Women in Business

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Posted on March 13, 2013 by in Business, Harlem business

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West Harlem, Portrayed in a First Wave of Grant Requests

Posted on February 7, 2013 by | Leave a comment

HARLEMGRANTS-articleLargeSome of the requests conjure images of a worn-down West Harlem: efforts to revive the arts in faltering schools; raise reading and writing skills for kindergarten and first-grade students; and help people with criminal records find jobs. Continue reading →

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Black Architects Say Columbia Shut Them Out of $6.3 Billion Harlem Campus

Posted on December 18, 2012 by | Leave a comment

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They’ve worked with world-famous architectural firms such as I.M. Pei & Partners and designed projects for the Durst Organization that cost millions of dollars. Continue reading →

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Free Columbia University Interns!

Posted on December 13, 2012 by | Leave a comment

kenneth cole internships at columbia UThe Kenneth Cole Community Engagement Program at Columbia University is inviting applications from organizations interested in hosting a team of Kenneth Cole Fellows to complete a summer internship project! This program strives to provide Columbia undergraduates with practical experience and insight in becoming community leaders and effective agents of change. Continue reading →

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West Harlem Development Corporation Assures Of Progress

Posted on November 6, 2012 by | 4 Comments

About 275 people packed into the West Harlem Development Corporation’s 2012 Pubic Meeting on Thursday, Oct. 25, many walking away feeling confident and optimistic about the organization’s plans to fund important initiatives in the community. Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday To Harlemite and Jazz Man Benny Carter

Posted on August 10, 2012 by | 2 Comments

Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. Continue reading →

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Danny Tisdale's and IUME's Harlem AIDS Blanket Brings Hope (in Harlem)

Posted on February 19, 2012 by | Leave a comment

AIDS has been labeled an epidemic in the black communities of Harlem, but it’s really the stigma, the prejudice and the silence that kills. Continue reading →

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Ishmael Osekre: What My Mama Told Me (video)

Posted on January 2, 2012 by | Leave a comment

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Ishmael Osekre arrived in New York with $30, no bank account and no idea how he would pay for his tuition at Columbia University.  Continue reading →

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